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    • PavelP
      Pavel @tsar
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      @tsar said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

      @KarmaBum said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

      @tsar said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

      if anyone pages me that I’m sending them explicit TS poses, you’ve all been warned

      like… personalized right then on the spot or do you have a dispenser…? 'cause i know where to find you and got a week off coming up soon

      lol what are you planning on coming to my house and having me recite TS out loud

      Either beat poetry or Shakespeare style, please.

      He/Him. Opinions and views are solely my own unless specifically stated otherwise.
      BE AN ADULT

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      • bear_necessitiesB
        bear_necessities @tsar
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        @tsar said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

        @shit-piss-love said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

        That just seems like a risky move in a hobby that is already full of “What were you doing in private with THEM?!”.

        if anyone pages me that I’m sending them explicit TS poses, you’ve all been warned

        I just want everyone here to know that I asked this of @tsar and I didn’t even get a PG-13 TS pose let alone an explicit one so I DEMAND JUSTICE.

        BAIT
        AND
        SWITCH

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        • JumpscareJ
          Jumpscare @Faraday
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          @Faraday said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

          But honestly, what people are doing in their private scenes is none of anyone’s business.

          Maybe I’m in the minority, but I don’t like being in private scenes. I’d much rather be in watchable scenes, for many reasons… I don’t like adding to the curtain of private scenes, it gives other players something to read during their downtime, and if it’s going to be shared in the end anyway I have no problem with people reading it before it’s done.

          I’m not saying that other players shouldn’t be entitled to their privacy, although I can see how my previous post came off like that. My mistake. I was intending to refer to people like me who prefer being in watchable scenes.

          Or maybe I’m the only one who likes that. I don’t know.

          Game-runner of Silent Heaven, a small-town horror MU.
          https://silentheaven.org

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          • FaradayF
            Faraday @Jumpscare
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            @Jumpscare said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

            Or maybe I’m the only one who likes that. I don’t know.

            Oh I’m sure you’re not. My comment about “none of their business” was just in general, not meant to be directed at you. Sorry if that was unclear.

            Personally I always found the “+watch” code from days of yore intensely uncomfortable. Not because I was doing anything truly private (I post most of my scenes anyway), but just because it bothers me feeling like I have someone looking over my shoulder. I turn off my “X players watching you” indicator in video games for similar reasons 🙂 So I’m not going to code anything like that for Ares, but like I mentioned, scene notes should cover the basic need.

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            • hellfrogH
              hellfrog @tsar
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              @tsar said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

              @shit-piss-love said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

              That just seems like a risky move in a hobby that is already full of “What were you doing in private with THEM?!”.

              if anyone pages me that I’m sending them explicit TS poses, you’ve all been warned

              don’t threaten us with a good time

              fr fr
              (she/her)

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              • SpaceKhomeiniS
                SpaceKhomeini
                last edited by SpaceKhomeini

                I’m primarily distract/async due to, well, life, but I’ve found that there’s async and then there’s ASYNC. I’m fine with async with poses as infrequent as maybe once a day or two but after a while, I find myself in situations where people pose every 3-4 days and I find myself unable to even focus properly as my head just falls out of the situation.

                Again, I know this is necessary sometimes, it’s just not ideal for me.

                I woke up feeling so good, I think I’d better call in sick/ I need a personal trainer to help me hold my drink
                I plan to be spontaneous next time we meet/I’m putting off procrastinating until next week
                I’ll get onto it when I give a shit

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                • KarmaBumK
                  KarmaBum @Faraday
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                  @Faraday said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

                  Personally I always found the “+watch” code from days of yore intensely uncomfortable. Not because I was doing anything truly private (I post most of my scenes anyway), but just because it bothers me feeling like I have someone looking over my shoulder.

                  Yep yep yep, exactly the same. I’m not a nervous person - I don’t get stage-fright, I’m not bashful about asking for RP, I don’t even mind having people read my logs. But having someone watch my RP live twigs me in a way I can’t put my finger on.

                  Part of it is that I’m willing to be a lot more vulnerable in private RP, especially if it’s with somebody I’m comfortable with, and letting that out in “private” and then sharing it afterward is a lot different than letting someone uninvolved watch things unfold live. There’s a rawness in the moment of writing something (even if it’s a crazy async scene) that gets lost in logs. I know I’ve read my own logs after the fact and been like “wow, this scene felt a lot more emotional when I was writing it than when I’m reading it.”

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                  • JumpscareJ
                    Jumpscare
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                    @Faraday @KarmaBum Thanks for the responses. That definitely helps me see it from your points of view.

                    Game-runner of Silent Heaven, a small-town horror MU.
                    https://silentheaven.org

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                      Nilli
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                      11th hour addition, but I’m team “whatever gets me good RP.”

                      My IDEAL would be 100% live scenes, all the time, but that’s not realistic for most people (myself included) so most of the time I do distract, where it might be live sometimes but then someone has a meeting or whatever, or is just doing other things and takes 20 minutes to pose. And that works nicely, it’s basically live but a little slower than that. I also think I write better in more live-type scenes. I think it helps me to delve into things more when it’s happening in the moment.

                      BUT, I know some people who are amazing writers, and all they can do is async. So I will do async with them so that I may bask in their amazingness.

                      Re: the +where/active scenes debate… I have absolutely been harassed before by people who see I’m scening with someone and make assumptions about what we’re doing, e.g. You Stole My Wife! (I did not steal any wives.) Or “You’re posing there and not for me whyyyyy.” So I’d be pro-removing listings for private scenes. Logs posted are the better gauge for whether a game is actually active anyway.

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                      • SpaceKhomeiniS
                        SpaceKhomeini @Nilli
                        last edited by SpaceKhomeini

                        @Nilli said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

                        11th hour addition, but I’m team “whatever gets me good RP.”

                        My IDEAL would be 100% live scenes, all the time, but that’s not realistic for most people (myself included) so most of the time I do distract, where it might be live sometimes but then someone has a meeting or whatever, or is just doing other things and takes 20 minutes to pose. And that works nicely, it’s basically live but a little slower than that. I also think I write better in more live-type scenes. I think it helps me to delve into things more when it’s happening in the moment.

                        BUT, I know some people who are amazing writers, and all they can do is async. So I will do async with them so that I may bask in their amazingness.

                        Re: the +where/active scenes debate… I have absolutely been harassed before by people who see I’m scening with someone and make assumptions about what we’re doing, e.g. You Stole My Wife! (I did not steal any wives.) Or “You’re posing there and not for me whyyyyy.” So I’d be pro-removing listings for private scenes. Logs posted are the better gauge for whether a game is actually active anyway.

                        Buuuuuuut that’s precisely the sort of thing a wife-stealer would say!

                        Seriously though, I honestly don’t have strong feelings one way or another about private scene listings but for the sake of your argument because boundary-busting creepers love to creep and bust boundaries, I’m pro-removal as well.

                        You made the most convincing argument.

                        I woke up feeling so good, I think I’d better call in sick/ I need a personal trainer to help me hold my drink
                        I plan to be spontaneous next time we meet/I’m putting off procrastinating until next week
                        I’ll get onto it when I give a shit

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                        • FaradayF
                          Faraday @SpaceKhomeini
                          last edited by Faraday

                          @SpaceKhomeini said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

                          I honestly don’t have strong feelings one way or another about private scene listings but for the sake of your argument because boundary-busting creepers love to creep and bust boundaries, I’m pro-removal as well.

                          Yep, I’m also pro removal of boundary-busting creepers.

                          Hiding information to appease them? Not so much. Though as mentioned, individuals are welcome to use the hide command:

                          hide and unhide - Controls whether your grid location shows up on the who/where list and live scene list.

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                          • RozR
                            Roz
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                            I’m stealing 1) all wives, and 2) also all husbands.

                            she/her | playlist

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                              Nilli @Roz
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                              @Roz I actually do recommend this course of action, because even though I had to deal with someone paging me nonstop like “how could you do this to me” and “she was happy only playing with me until YOU came along,” that wife became one of my best friends. And still is!

                              Tl;dr steal wives, get paid $$$

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                                dvoraen @Roz
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                                @Roz You’d be stealing me from someone eventually.

                                Are you sure? (Y/N)

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                                • PavelP
                                  Pavel @Roz
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                                  @Roz said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

                                  also all husbands.

                                  So that’s where he went.

                                  He/Him. Opinions and views are solely my own unless specifically stated otherwise.
                                  BE AN ADULT

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                                    Argh @Faraday
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                                    @Faraday said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

                                    Hiding information to appease them? Not so much.

                                    Lack of transparancy encourages them.

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                                    • CoinC
                                      Coin @Argh
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                                      @Argh said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

                                      @Faraday said in What Is Your Preferred Play Style?:

                                      Hiding information to appease them? Not so much.

                                      Lack of transparancy encourages them.

                                      I think there’s a difference between “lack of transparency” and “privacy” and people conflate the two a lot.

                                      In Occam I trust.

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